2007 Veikkausliiga

The 2007 season of the Veikkausliiga (the premier league of the Finnish football system), the 18th season in the league's history, began on April 21.

Veikkausliiga

Season	2007
Champions	Tampere United 3rd Finnish title
Relegated	AC Oulu, FC Viikingit
Champions League	Tampere United
UEFA Cup	FC Haka, FC Honka
Matches played	182
Goals scored	458 (2.52 per match)
Average goals/game	2,52
Top goalscorer	Rafael (14)
Biggest home win	FC Lahti 6 - 0 VPS
Biggest away win	FC Viikingit 0 - 4 FC Lahti
Highest scoring	FC Lahti 5 - 2 FF Jaro
← 2006 2008 →

Final league table

AC Oulu

MyPa

Honka

Viikingit
HJK

Jaro

Tampere United

KooTeePee

Mariehamn

Lahti

Inter
TPS

VPS

Haka

Location of teams in 2013 Veikkausliiga

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Tampere United (C)	26	16	6	4	45	27	+18	54	Qualification to Champions League first qualifying round
2	FC Haka	26	13	7	6	39	23	+16	46	Qualification to UEFA Cup first qualifying round
3	TPS	26	13	4	9	43	33	+10	43	Qualification to Intertoto Cup first round
4	FC Honka	26	10	11	5	34	25	+9	41	Qualification to UEFA Cup first qualifying round[a]
5	MyPa	26	11	7	8	29	26	+3	40
6	IFK Mariehamn	26	9	10	7	31	30	+1	37
7	HJK	26	7	13	6	31	25	+6	34
8	FC Lahti	26	9	6	11	38	34	+4	33
9	FC Inter	26	9	6	11	32	28	+4	33
10	VPS	26	7	11	8	26	35	−9	32
11	FF Jaro	26	7	7	12	30	41	−11	28
12	FC KooTeePee	26	7	5	14	27	38	−11	26
13	FC Viikingit (R)	26	5	8	13	25	44	−19	23	Qualification to relegation play-offs
14	AC Oulu (R)	26	5	7	14	28	49	−21	22	Relegation to Ykkönen

Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. As Tampere United are guaranteed European football in the Champions League as league champions, their spot in the UEFA Cup as Finnish Cup winners is transferred to the losing finalist. FC Honka will therefore play in the 2008-09 season of the UEFA Cup

Veikkausliiga 2007 winners
Tampere United Third title

Relegation playoff

RoPS of the Ykkönen beat FC Viikingit for a place in the 2008 season of the Veikkausliiga.

Results

Home \ Away	HAK	HJK	HON	INT	JAR	KTP	LAH	MAR	MYP	OUL	TAM	TPS	VPS	VII
FC Haka		3–3	1–1	1–0	4–0	3–0	1–2	1–2	0–0	2–0	1–2	2–1	1–0	1–0
HJK	2–1		0–1	2–0	2–2	1–1	0–2	2–2	5–0	0–0	0–2	3–0	0–0	1–1
FC Honka	0–2	0–0		1–2	2–2	0–0	0–0	2–0	2–1	2–0	1–2	2–0	1–0	1–1
FC Inter	3–1	1–1	1–1		5–2	1–0	0–1	0–2	1–2	1–0	1–1	1–1	5–0	0–1
FF Jaro	1–2	0–0	1–2	1–0		0–0	3–0	1–1	0–3	0–1	0–2	2–0	0–1	2–0
FC KooTeePee	1–2	1–3	1–2	0–2	2–1		2–2	1–2	1–0	3–0	0–3	4–2	1–1	1–0
FC Lahti	1–1	3–1	2–2	2–2	1–4	2–0		4–1	0–1	2–1	0–2	2–3	6–0	0–2
IFK Mariehamn	0–1	0–0	0–0	2–0	1–1	3–2	0–0		0–2	0–0	1–0	0–3	1–3	4–2
MyPa	0–3	0–0	1–0	1–3	2–0	1–0	1–0	0–0		3–2	4–1	0–2	0–1	1–1
AC Oulu	1–1	0–1	3–3	2–0	5–1	1–2	2–1	0–3	1–1		2–0	1–3	3–3	1–1
Tampere United	2–1	2–1	0–2	2–1	2–1	2–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	4–1		3–0	2–2	1–0
TPS	2–1	0–1	1–3	1–0	1–1	3–2	3–1	0–0	1–0	4–0	1–3		5–1	5–0
VPS	0–0	2–1	1–1	0–0	1–2	1–0	1–0	1–3	0–0	5–0	1–1	0–0		1–1
FC Viikingit	0–2	1–1	3–2	0–2	1–2	0–1	0–4	2–2	1–4	3–1	3–3	0–1	1–0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

European results

Champions League:

• Tampere United prevailed in the first qualifying round against S.S. Murata of San Marino, and followed up with a victory over Levski Sofia of Bulgaria, but was knocked out by Rosenborg of Norway in the third qualifying round

UEFA Cup:

• HJK won in the first qualifying round against Etzella Ettelbruck of Luxembourg, but was knocked out by Aalborg BK of Denmark in the second qualifying round
• FC Haka won in the first qualifying round against Rhyl of Wales, but was knocked out by Midtjylland of Denmark in the second qualifying round
• MyPa won in the first qualifying round against EB/Streymur of the Faroe Islands, but was knocked out by Blackburn Rovers of England in the second qualifying round
• Tampere United joined 1st round of UEFA Cup after losing in the third qualifying round of Champions League. Bordeaux won 4–3 on aggregate.

Intertoto Cup:

• FC Honka won the first round against TVMK Tallinn of Estonia, but was knocked out by Aalborg BK of Denmark in the second round

Top goal scorers

As of 13 October 2007

Position	Player	Country	Team	Goals
1	Rafael		FC Lahti	13
2	Toni Lehtinen		FC Haka	11
3	Mikko Paatelainen		TPS	9
-	Berat Sadik		FC Lahti	9
5	Jami Puustinen		FC Honka	8
-	Mika Ääritalo		TPS	8
7	Kim Liljeqvist		KooTeePee	7
-	Jari Niemi		Tampere Utd	7
9	Jonas Emet		FF Jaro	6
-	Mikko Innanen		FC Haka	6
-	Armand One		TPS	6
-	Tomi Petrescu		Tampere Utd	6
-	Antti Pohja		Tampere Utd	6
-	Vili Savolainen		HJK	6
15	Jussi Aalto		FF Jaro	5
-	Janne Hietanen		AC Oulu	5
-	Toni Junnila		FF Jaro	5
-	Tero Taipale		VPS	5
-	Justus Vajanne		IFK Mariehamn	5

References

• UEFA
• http://www.goalzz.com/main.aspx?c=2775&scorers=true